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by andreyf 11y ago
There are a lot of those, but only two for information sharing, as far as I'm aware. CISPA failed, and CISA replaced it. One difference is described by tptacek here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10763837
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by andreyf 11y ago
What do you expect them to respond? It's not very well defined. I would probably say... """ REST, like many great religious philosophies, combines with one's life experience to mean something different for every pai
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by andreyf 11y ago
Client-agnostic? That seems to imply no id's on the clients at all, though.
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by andreyf 11y ago
Oh, this is actually neat: > what about progress bars for stuff that your server is doing in the background This seems like a really good micro-service.
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by andreyf 11y ago
It has? Can you give an example? This is generating a custom GIF file on the server. It's most likely been done by someone somewhere before, but not something I've been both gaming and forum-ing for a little while.
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by andreyf 11y ago
We have ways of keeping keys like that secure. For example, the master recovery keys used for HD encryption on NSA / Google / Lockheed laptops. Those are all pretty valuable, and yet they've been kept secure. I don't thi
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by andreyf 11y ago
"1x1 transparent pixel" is called a "tracking pixel". Gmail still allows marketers to track when a user opens an email (even better than before, since it no longer asks users whether they want to load images). However, t
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by andreyf 11y ago
That's a good question, too. I'm sure people are asking it and many others like it internally, a well. On the outside, I think this is yet another reason to use git, which, if I recall correctly, is designed to make attacks on com
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by andreyf 11y ago
No. It will not. Backdoors are fine as long as they are NOBUS and the master key remains safe. Notice, for example, how every major corporation has a "backdoor" in all their employee's hard drive encryption schemes, except th
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by andreyf 11y ago
I think we're well on our way to a point where certificates can be mostly trusted. Of course certs can be stolen, but I would bet that "spoofed" certificates will soon be an occurrence of the past.
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by andreyf 11y ago
And a good one. They were definitely deliberate, but the other details are not public.
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by andreyf 11y ago
Good question. I don't know. I realize MPAA lawyers don't agree, but a crime like "conspiracy to enable people watch movies for free" seems like it isn't exactly the best thing to spend our limited judicial resource
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by andreyf 11y ago
Good question. It might be considered a derivative work, but I think that would be a new interpretation of that phrase. Big-picture answer is that most people who write and interpret laws do not know what SHA-1 is, so current laws might not
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by andreyf 11y ago
You mean CISA.
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by andreyf 11y ago
Is organizing the violation of copyright laws political speech, or do you mean something else by "political reasons"?
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by andreyf 11y ago
I usually round 1000 lines of code before breakfast. At my last job, it took a team of programmer to review just half the code I was writing.
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by andreyf 11y ago
The performance art hypothesis has not been disproven to my knowledge, but I haven't ever heard of anyone being arrested and indicted by the feds as being part of their plan in life. Are there any such examples?
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by andreyf 11y ago
Why do you think it was the US government?
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by andreyf 11y ago
I don't know, but for the sake of argument, I think it's OK to say no. If I have a website that is reachable on the internet that hosts a wiki and logs access, does that mean I am doing business in all countries that have internet
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by andreyf 11y ago
Seems to me like it might be WhatsApp that's on a power trip. What would an American judge do if WhatsApp were to ignore a lawful subpoena?
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by andreyf 11y ago
Also, the Google cloud platform dashboard.
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by andreyf 11y ago
It's not really an alternative to Firebase until you have change notification and a similar scaling model (i.e. scale by throwing money at it).
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by andreyf 11y ago
I think ML will first make (some) people significantly more productive, but yes, the economic shift in productivity we're starting to see now is very much worth thinking and talking about.
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by andreyf 11y ago
What is "an AI system with the ability to make high-quality decisions"? Do automated derivative trading models count? Do systems which decide how much to bid on a RTB ad exchange count? The first problem is not new. We have a simi
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by andreyf 11y ago
What is proof-by-disbelief? I'm not trying to prove that HGI is impossible, nor do I think it's impossible. However, until one proposes a concrete methodology for modeling the world which includes the method that is doing the mode
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by andreyf 11y ago
The first Terminator was released in 1984. The idea existed before it, of course.
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by andreyf 11y ago
It is absolutely reasonable to fear how ML may be misused by a human, and those concerns fall mostly in the realm of political theory and economics. My claim is that I have seen no evidence that it is reasonable to fear a fictional self-awa
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by andreyf 11y ago
There are certainly changes happening (and more on the way!) as a result of a combination of Moore's Law and ML research. I don't think they are inherently significantly more risky any more than other technical advances as long as
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by andreyf 11y ago
Don't straw man me, bro. My point is that the entire idea of an buggy AI destroying humanity is absolutely divorced from the reality of AI research. It's not unimaginable to the lay-person, but there is simply no way of getting th
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by andreyf 11y ago
Also, no-one is worried about a skynet scenario. The worrying scenario is just any powerful system that optimises for something that's different from what humans want. So Transcendence in leu of The Terminator. It's still hollyw

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